Digital Review
{{Short description|Defunct computer magazine}}
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Digital Review{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/02/business/the-media-business-advertising-people.html
|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; People
|author=Randall Rothenberg |date=August 2, 1989}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/16/business/advertising-2-publishing-divisions-created-for-ziff-davis.html
|title=ADVERTISING; 2 Publishing Divisions Created for Ziff-Davis
|author=Daniel F. Cuff |date=September 16, 1987}} was a trade magazine focusing on the market created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), at the time the second largest computer company; IBM was number one.
History
They were published independently from October 1983 thru August 1992 by Ziff-Davis.{{cite web
|url=https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/discovery/fulldisplay/alma991043334614303276/01VAN_INST:vanui
|title=Digital Review}} At that point, they were acquired and merged with Digital News; the new title was Digital News & Review.{{cite web
|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t72p80/entire_text/
|title=Guide to the Digital Equipment Corporation records
|work=Computer History Museum |date=April 2017}} The Boston Globe had described the situation between the prior publication owners as "The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff, McGovern empires."{{cite news |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=May 17, 1985
|title=The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff, McGovern empires}}{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1987/03/09/computer-publications-to-square-off-cw-takes-on-ziff-davis-for-rich-federal-market/0ec509db-68cb-473c-b07c-7200d28d23ac
|title=Computer Publications to Square Off: CW takes on Ziff-Davis .. Digital Review
|date=March 9, 1987}} The combined Digital News & Review periodical was printed from 1992 to 1996 by Reed Business Information.{{cite web
|url=https://archive.org/details/pub_digital-news-review
|title=Digital News & Review 1992-1996: Free Texts}}{{cite web |issn=1065-7452
|url=https://librarytest.usask.ca/ejournals/view.php?id=110978978557233
|title=Electronic Journal - University Library - University of Saskatchewan}} That title ceased publishing "due to the lack of an advertising base."By then DEC had been acquired by Compaq, and the latter's focus was on PCs. {{cite news |newspaper=Advertising Age
|url=https://adage.com/article/news/coca-cola-moves-minute-maid-burnett-family-circle-joins-pc-world-title-u-s-west-opens-40-mil-account-talks-carat-seeking-a-ceo-north-america-campbell-soup-health-products-chrysler-jeep-divisions-merge-marketing-staffs-compaq-computer-/77976
|title=COCA-COLA MOVES MINUTE MAID TO BURNETT:`FAMILY CIRCLE' JOINS `PC WORLD' FOR NEW TITLE:U S WEST Opens New $40 MIL Account Talks:CARAT Seeking a CEO for NORTH AMERICA:Campbell Soup to try New HEALTH PRODUCTS:Chrysler, JEEP Divisions MERGE Marketing Staffs
|date=August 26, 1996}}{{cite news |newspaper=Advertising Age
|url=https://adage.com/article/news/welke-named-chairman-euro-rscg-tatham/19144
|title=WELKE Named CHAIRMAN at EURO RSCG TATHAM
|date=August 26, 1996}}
See also
References
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Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States
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